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Bangladesh women win their first Asian Games hockey match "Roid" is Bangladesh's Oscar entry Korai Kitchen makes the NYT's 50 favorite restaurants Japan deal opens 10 years of skilled jobs Miles frontman Hamin Ahmed becomes the first Bangladeshi on the Asia-Pacific music creators' board Rooppur nuclear plant reaches its first controlled chain reaction Two Bangladeshi students win SpaceXAI challenge at HackMIT with a tool that tracks space debris New York-raised diplomat Trishita Maula leads the US Embassy in Dhaka Brick Lane Curry Festival draws a record 40,000 people to London's Banglatown Bangladesh trains field epidemiologists and lab leaders to strengthen health emergency readiness Bangladesh Under-19s beat Afghanistan in a Super Over thriller in Oman Shuvagata Hom becomes the first Bangladeshi with 7,000 runs and 300 wickets in first-class cricket

Bangladesh women win their first Asian Games hockey match "Roid" is Bangladesh's Oscar entry Korai Kitchen makes the NYT's 50 favorite restaurants Japan deal opens 10 years of skilled jobs Miles frontman Hamin Ahmed becomes the first Bangladeshi on the Asia-Pacific music creators' board Rooppur nuclear plant reaches its first controlled chain reaction Two Bangladeshi students win SpaceXAI challenge at HackMIT with a tool that tracks space debris New York-raised diplomat Trishita Maula leads the US Embassy in Dhaka Brick Lane Curry Festival draws a record 40,000 people to London's Banglatown Bangladesh trains field epidemiologists and lab leaders to strengthen health emergency readiness Bangladesh Under-19s beat Afghanistan in a Super Over thriller in Oman Shuvagata Hom becomes the first Bangladeshi with 7,000 runs and 300 wickets in first-class cricket

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Iqbal Quadir

Founder, Grameenphone · Telecoms and development

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He came up with the idea behind Grameenphone and later founded MIT's Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship.

Iqbal Quadir was born in Jessore in 1958. In the 1990s he initiated Grameenphone, which brought mobile phones to millions of Bangladeshis, including village phone ladies who rented calls to their neighbors.

At MIT he founded the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship in 2007. With his brother Kamal he co-founded Money in Motion, which provided early risk capital to bKash.

He was named a World Economic Forum Global Leader for Tomorrow in 1999 and received an honorary doctorate from Swarthmore College in 2011.

Sources: Wikipedia

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